Pith Number

pith:UJOMQZJK

pith:2021:UJOMQZJKSVX4EQYUIS7ABHMFON

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Knowledge distillation: A good teacher is patient and consistent

Alexander Kolesnikov, Am\'elie Royer, Larisa Markeeva, Lucas Beyer, Rohan Anil, Xiaohua Zhai

arxiv:2106.05237 v2 · 2021-06-09 · cs.CV · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:33:19.738714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a25cc8652a956fc2431444be009d85737a3c7e1021c6cf406d6a662a839e0234

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.05237 · arxiv_version: 2106.05237v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.05237 · pith_short_12: UJOMQZJKSVX4 · pith_short_16: UJOMQZJKSVX4EQYU · pith_short_8: UJOMQZJK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UJOMQZJKSVX4EQYUIS7ABHMFON \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a25cc8652a956fc2431444be009d85737a3c7e1021c6cf406d6a662a839e0234

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-09T17:20:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "674e910326b902b816f30c569b5c8bcd371175de0b4da1a72c3c29618a9c3c93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.05237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}